Heavy rains and high winds lashed Taiwan on Thursday as the largest storm to hit the island in nearly three decades made landfall along its southeast coast, killing at least one person and injuring dozens. Typhoon Kong-rey packed winds approaching 200 kilometers per hour (125 mph), equivalent to a Category…
Google has reportedly racked up a fine of more than two undecillion rubles – two followed by 36 zeros – after it removed state-run and pro-government accounts from YouTube. Put another way, an undecillion is a trillion times a trillion times a trillion. The fine is far greater than the…
Elon Musk has been summoned to an emergency court hearing on Thursday over the $1m prizes he has been awarding registered voters in the swing state of Pennsylvania. The Tesla and X chief executive has been ordered by a judge in Philadelphia to address a civil case by the city’s…
A new, more infectious strain of mpox has been detected in the UK for the first time. The single case of the mpox virus variant Clade 1b was detected in a patient who is being treated at the Royal Free Hospital in London, according to the UK Health Security Agency…
The extreme conditions in eastern Spain which saw Valencia get a year’s worth of rain in just eight hours can be blamed on an event locally known as Depresion Aislada en Niveles Altos (DANA). This weather situation occurs when the jet stream high up in the atmosphere meanders like a…
Another violent flood, another day we can hardly believe how climate change is, well, changing our lives. At least 72 people killed. Crops ruined, flights diverted, a high-speed train derailed. The footage is jaw-dropping: torrents of water collapsing a bridge, vehicles swept away and dumped on top of each other…
The NSPCC is warning an AI company that allowed users to create chatbots imitating murdered teenager Brianna Ghey and her mother pursued “growth and profit at the expense of safety and decency”. Character.AI, which last week was accused of “manipulating” a teenage boy into taking his own life, also allowed…
In her view, it’s only a matter of time before both precious metals are squeezed higher. ‘We’ll see, but it wouldn’t surprise me to see the spot market break US$3,000 (per ounce) by the end of this year,’ she said about gold, adding that silver could finish 2024 at the…
Not for distribution to United States newswire services or for dissemination in the United States. Grande Portage Resources Ltd. (TSXV:GPG)(OTCQB:GPTRF)(FSE:GPB) (‘Grande Portage’ or the ‘Company’) is pleased to announce a non-brokered private placement of up to 10,000,000 units (each, a ‘Unit’) at a price of C$0.30 per Unit for aggregate…
Matt Geiger, managing partner at MJG Capital Fund, spoke about the health of the junior mining sector as gold continues to run, acknowledging that explorers haven’t moved as much as investors might like. However, in his view, that may bode well for their future performance. ‘One could argue that the…